On Wed, Feb 16, 2022 at 01:02:44AM +1100, Chris Angelico wrote: > Yeah, regexes always look terrible when they're used for simple > examples :) But try matching a line that has (somewhere in it) the > word "spam", then whitespace, then a number (or if you prefer: then a > sequence of ASCII digits). It's easy to write "spam\s+[0-9]+"
After this thread, I no longer trust that "easy" regexes will do what they "obviously" look like they should do :-( I'm not trying to be funny or snarky. I *thought* I had a reasonable understanding of regexes, and now I have learned that I don't, and that the regexes I've been writing don't do what I thought they did, and presumedly the only reason they haven't blown up in my face (either performance-wise, or the wrong output) is blind luck. Now I have *three* problems :-( -- Steve _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list -- python-ideas@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to python-ideas-le...@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-ideas.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-ideas@python.org/message/FEBOS7QOJZSSLZGMVLPHQQM4QWDBMD46/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
